30. Russia just claimed to have found a unicorn resting place or something. nt

7. I'll share your confidence when it is as "on the table" as Eisenhower-era taxes...

...or if the debate turns to the best ways to expand it.

We live in an era where attacks on every lever of income security for ordinary people has been the routine course of business for three decades, to the point where it has become a virtual religious dogma for one political party and has made strong inroads into the leadership of ours under the rubric of being "pro-business". Conservative billionaires have funded "bipartisan" organizations to lobby for "entitlement reform" that invents or inflates some problems, then freely conflates them with real issues (such as rising medical costs). They then advocate "reforms" that amount to cuts while never suggesting practical ways to boost revenue (like raising the cap).

I'm glad the dike wasn't breached this time, but you'll understand if I wait until it's clear the tide has gone out before thinking we can stop filling sandbags.

In reality, President Obama is a good bit to The Conservative RIGHT of the 80s Era Republican leadership.

No wonder I have so much contempt for today's
"Centrist-Moderate" 3rdWay/DLC Democrats.
I absolutely despised 80s era Republicans.

Give ME those Old Time FDR/LBJ DEMOCRATS
ALL Day...EVERY Day!

"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone

photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed

You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
Solidarity99!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------